Profiles and Criticism

[Wolverine]

Recently, my standards for roleplaying on the site has come into question, specifically profiles. My biggest concern is not necessarily quality of roleplay but fairness. I don't want people to feel like I've arbitrarily favored people when I should just concentrate on the roleplaying itself.

I've also noticed that, unlike the past, there has been a lot of member criticism in profile acceptance. This has caused both positive and negative responses. On the one hand, the players have improved the profiles, and the majority of them do seem to handle the criticism favorably. On the other hand, sometimes unwanted criticism or criticism that is not worded in a polite and understanding manner can create tension and fighting.

I'm going to ask you guys what you think I should do about accepting profiles.

[Wild Thing]

If you accept everyone without reguard to quality, your quality people will leave. i know from experience. peopel who are good at rping don't like playing with peopel who are lazy and don't take the game seriously. it's less fun for us.

[Wolverine]

I decided to allow only staff members to reply to posts on profiles. You can still post profiles, but you can't reply to posts.

[Boogeyman]

In creating a second profile, it has occured to me that people might vote once with each of their profiles, so creating polls may not be the best idea.

I'd also like to point out that if you go for numbers instead of quality, you'll get it, and you won't like the result. I once had 50-something active players on my old board. Yet it wasn't successful by my standards now, because the poor quality of rping led to it falling apart.

[Wolverine]

I will try to make the standards higher by giving criticism myself.

[Boogeyman]

You're the only staff member, wolvie. what if you miss something? XD

[Wolverine]

I can live with that.